Rock Physics provides the connections between elastic properties measured at the surface of the earth, within the borehole environment or in the laboratory with the intrinsic properties of rocks, such as mineralogy, porosity, pore shapes, pore fluids, pore pressures, permeability, viscosity, stresses and overall architecture such as laminations and fractures. Rock Physics provides the understanding and theoretical tools required to optimize all imaging and characterization solutions based on elastic data.

The present site is a collection of resources for rock physicists and those who use the results of rock physics in their work.

Monthly Rock Physics Scholar

Marina PervukhinaCSIRO

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20th Rock Physics Influencer September-October 2018

Lev Vernik

Ikon Science

After launching my career as a wellsite geologist on the Kola Superdeep Scientific Drilling Project in the Soviet Union, gaining expertise in petrophysics and rock physics, and finally expanding into seismic modelling and inversion, by the early 2000s I had evolved into an all-around geoscientist capable of solving a wide range of complex problems in hydrocarbon exploration and in conventional/unconventional reservoir characterization.Read more

Call for papers for 5IWRPCALL FOR PAPERSThe Call for Papers is open from 1 August, 2018 through 15 October, 2018. Prospective participants are requested to submit an abstract of no more than 2 ...
Posted Aug 15, 2018, 9:28 AM by IARP Admin

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Organic-rich carbonatesI have been dealing with rock physics analysis of an organic-rich chalk, and there is a new approach that we are trying to extrapolate to organic-rich carbonate formations (e.g. Niobrara, Eagleford). I am looking for publications in which acoustic velocities, organic content, porosity and density are reported, in order to examine this approach. Would love to have everyone's ideas. Thanks in advance.
Posted Apr 21, 2018, 3:34 AM by Omri Shitrit

Thomson's parameters for anisotropyIn case if we do not have core plugs and also unable to find Thomson's parameters during seismic data processing, how can we calculate these ones (eta, epsilon etc.) from sonic log? Please share your views, literature and numerical formulas. Thanks
Posted Mar 6, 2016, 2:06 PM by IARP Admin

What are unresolved issues in rock physics?At the end
of the 3IWRP workshop in Perth, Australia, one of the popular topics of
discussion was “What do you think are unresolved issues in rock physics?” I would like to
continue and extend the discussion to a wider audience who did not attend the
workshop. Please share your thoughts.
Posted Aug 9, 2015, 1:08 PM by IARP Admin